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In the Literary Neighborhood: The Translated Romanian Novel in (Ex-)Yugoslavia (1918-2020)

Author(s): Snejana Ung / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article investigates the literary institutions that facilitate the dissemination of the Romanian novel in (the former) Yugoslavia between 1918 and 2020. My approach consists of a two-fold analysis: quantitative and sociological. While a quantitative methodology is employed to extract information regarding the extent to which the Romanian novel was translated in the neighboring literary periphery, sociological analysis is required to properly identify and examine the literary institutions that are involved in the cross-peripheral circulation throughout the twentieth-century and the first two decades of the new millennium. What these two-fold analysis shows is: 1) that the gradual increase of the translated novels is a result of the development of a literary infrastructure in the source culture and 2) that the literary institutions open up direct routes of transfer, which proves that the mediation through a core literature is rather the exception than the rule in the case of literary encounters between Romania and (the former) Yugoslavia.

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SYMBOLISM AND ORIGINALITY IN EMIL BOTTA`S POETRY

Author(s): Mariana Ionela Mitrofan (Iorgulescu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2021

Although poets should avoid consecrated, bookish or folkloric symbols, statistics show that they are very frequent in modern poetry. Named "the poet of masks", who lived as a creative servant between poetry and theatre, Emil Botta, the author of a black, unmistakable poetry, with characters from his own mythology of death, was born to relate what is beyond the frontier between human existence and "real" life. He differently used various symbols in original and authentic ways.

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CREANGĂ’S SYNTAX - SEVERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECTIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE IN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Author(s): Bianca Daniela Kopoșciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2021

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the stylistic-syntactic realization of the subjective subordinate clause, be it pronominal or conjunctional, in the era of the Great Classics, in order to highlight some construction features which had been either abandoned or considerably restricted in the present-day language, making reference to both relationship elements as well as to the regent elements registered within the analyzed corpus: Ion Creangă’s Childhood Memories volume, the first three parts being published between 1881-1882, and the fourth part posthumously, respectively.

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PROZA SADOVENIANĂ ÎNTRE MODEL ȘI ATIPIE

Author(s): Constantin Dram / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 26/2021

In the extensive work of what is considered "the greatest Romanian storyteller" there are some texts so unusual, as a style, as an ideology, as a narrative model, that they seem to be part of the work of another writer. Starting from some major elements that imposed the "tyranny" of the model in Sadoveanu's prose, we will send to other significant prose from this point of view, which falls into a modern aesthetic, different from the traditionalistic perspective that is specific to the author.

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THE BEGINNINGS OF THE FANTASTIC CATEGORY IN THE UNIVERSAL AND ROMANIAN LITERATURE

Author(s): Oana Bădăluță / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 27/2021

The researchers of the phenomenon consider that the beginnings of the fantastic in universal literature are difficult to establish. However, there are some reference works, such as: The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata or the Ramayana, in which the real elements alternate with the unreal, imaginary, dreamlike, miraculous, mythical or symbolic ones. The fantastic in Romanian literature includes two literary periods: the classical one and the interwar one. In the early years of Junimea, within the cenacle, the first fantastic Romanian texts are read, due to Eminescu, Macedonski and Caragiale. The affirmation of the Romanian fantasy came from the miraculous folklore, a point from which it developed, starting with the work of Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Zburatorul (Flying incubus; the eponymous incubus-like being who visits nubile girls at night), and with Ion Budai-Deleanu's Tiganiada (Gypsy Epic). In addition to the works of well- known Romanian writers, such as Eminescu, Caragiale, Rebreanu, Arghezi, Eliade, Voiculescu, which abound in the use of fantastic elements, there are a number of lesser-known writings of the genre, as follows: Cella Delavrancea The Sign, Cezar Petrescu Aranca, the Naiad of the Lakes, Dumitru M. Ion The Devil of St. Stephen, Nicolae Davidescu A Thousand Nights and the Second Night, Oscar Lemnaru The Man Who Sold His Sadness, Pan Izverna The Mermaid's Song, Vasile Beneş The Red Inn and Vladimir Colin An Invisible Fish.

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GEORGE MIHAIL ZAMFIRESCU - THE PARADIGM OF A CONTROVERSIAL MODERNITY

Author(s): Cristian Hoaghea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 27/2021

Interwar prose writer and playwright, George Mihail Zamfirescu is part of an eclectic and controversial modernism. A critical and sentimental observer of the world in which he lived, his vision is objective due to the realism generated by the inclusion of the social aspects of the periphery, whose poet is and due to the gloomy vision of a world he knew from inside. Sentimentalism and lyricism, descriptive excess represent souvenirs from a previous century, while authenticity and psychological subjectivism, the penetrating and truthful radiography of teenage love as well as individual or collective human psychology are signs of modernity and artistic maturity. His evolution is opposite. While Domnișoara Nastasia and Maidanul cu dragoste are works unanimously considered as aesthetic values that get the status of masterpieces, the rest of his creations can be registered on oscillating value coordinates. Cântecul destinelor is almost a Balzacian novel, in which we feel Nicolae Filimon’s influence – the analysis gives way to creation, to the uniscient–subjective perspective, the omniscient- subjective perspective.

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VIZIUNEA MINULESCIANĂ DESPRE FANTASTIC

Author(s): Raluca NICOARĂ (BLEDEA) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 27/2021

Poet, prose writer, playwright and publicist Minulescu had an intense literary activity both in the country and abroad. He is also attracted by the remaining spirituality, by the fantastic and the supernatural of the modern events that he integrates in the future literary creations. Parallel universes trigger a new minulescian fantasy vision, built on key elements put in antithesis: real- unreal, logical-illogical and sacred-profane. Minulescian fantasy prose reflects the aspiration for a better life, the way of thinking and feeling, the desire to overcome the limits imposed by specific human nature, to subdue the forces of nature and to see the triumph of truth. Fantastic prose delights the reader with its rich imagery and stylistic diversity and not with the originality of its epic vision.

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VARIOUS FORMS OF THE COMIC IN THE COMEDIES OF I. L. CARAGIALE

Author(s): Elena Marilena Năstase (Mihail) / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2022

Comedy cannot be dissociated from the aesthetic category of the comic. This interferes with the burlesque and the grotesque, proving the evolution of the theatrical art. The purpose of this article is to highlight the various forms of the comic, starting from Aristotle's disapproving conception, next recalling the theatrical landmarks of universal literature and finally focusing on the comedies of I. L. Caragiale. The work of the Romanian playwright is close to the French vaudeville of the second half of the 19th century. It also reminds us that the comic techniques descend from the mimus, the medieval farce, the Karagoz theater and the game of the solitaries. For the modern reader and audience, Caragiale's comic causes a stiff laugh against an unbalanced world, reduced to caricatural manifestations.

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DIGITAL RESEARCH OF INTERWAR ROMANIAN NEWSPAPERS. A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Luiza Marinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

This study highlights the role of digitizing documentary sources such as newspapers and magazines of the interwar period for interdisciplinary philological research. It points out the role of Revista Fundațiilor Regale (The Journal of the Royal Foundations - translated title) in infusing the essence of the European artistic ideas of the moment into the culture of the Romanian. To illustrate this idea, the present pages aim to document the constructive influence that the presentation of André Malraux's writings and personality had on the interwar generation in Romanian culture. The universality of the social and political ideas of the militant intellectual André Malraux are true lessons of the past capitalized by the collaborators of the Royal Foundations Magazine, intellectuals with a wide horizon in Romanian culture, literature and philosophy, a country where the French language was very popular. The cultural debate proposed by the study of the Journal of the Royal Foundations brings to attention the similarities and differences between the French and the Romanian intellectuals, which evolve into centralized and centralist and mostly personalistic cultures. The Journal of the Royal Foundations privileges the intellectual debate and consecration of the writer André Malraux in interwar Romania, where a modern civil society was born, sufficiently informed and consciously engaged on one side or the other.

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PROMETHEAN MYTHOLOGICAL SYMBOLS, LEFT AND RIGHT OF THE PRUT

Author(s): Anca-Maria Ticu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

The reverberations of the Promethean myth can symbolically particularize Ion Creangă’s and Grigore Vieru’s creations, the primordiality of the fire and freedom assumed through sacrifice completing the revolt and the rebellion. The hermeneutics of the signs and the symbolism integrated in the myth can discover scientific, biographical and especially spiritual interferences in the two titans of the Romanian language. The tragic self-devouring is only a modern mutation of the myth, transposed at the Moldavian and Bessarabian ideational level. All the roots of the archetype aim to nourish the Romanian culture and literature with the sap of the Promethean authenticity.

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INFLUENCES BALZACIENNES DANS LES ROMANS DE MARIN PREDA

Author(s): Mihaela-Claudia Popescu / Language(s): French Issue: 28/2022

Marin Preda is a realistic writer, concerned with being exact and precise in his story, correct and concise in its style, its work being always part of the fundamental books of the Romanian literature. In Marin Preda's novel, omniscience is partially abandoned. The characters say something, they become informants, accomplices with the author, the narrator has therefore lost his sovereignty, and the heroes become reflectors. Moromeţii is a realistic novel, in which the anti-calophile style, similar to the style of the interwar prose writers, provides precision, conciseness and clarity. Like Balzac or the Russian realists, Marin Preda fixes in realistic paintings, sometimes sad and slightly oppressive, aspects of life and failure.

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THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE MACEDONSKI FAMILY TO THE HISTORY OF THE ROMANIANS

Author(s): Ramona NICOARĂ (BLEDEA) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

Alexandru Macedonski is an important Romanian writer who comes from a family that has been actively involved over time in various historically significant events for the Romanian people. The poet Alexandru Macedonski will not pursue a military career like his grandfather and father, but will be actively involved in political life by exposing his ideas in articles in various more or less recognized publications. His passion for political events led him to publish the newspaper "Oltul" between 1873- 1875 in which he published various pro-liberal articles. Macedonski's strong personality stands out in his ability to zealously convey all his literary or political conceptions. The latest political upheavals are the praiseworthy article dedicated to Field Marshal Mackensen, due to which Ovid Densusianu withdraws his proposal for the candidacy for the Romanian Academy, the brochure "Zacherlina further" and "The Sonnet of Power". The writer draws public disapproval and goes to war against everyone. The writer's death saves him from revenge.

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THEORIES OF FICTIONAL WORLDS IN ABSURD LITERATURE

Author(s): Violeta COSTEA (MOȚ) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

This article is part of a larger research on the possible worlds of absurd fiction and focuses on three theories applied to texts representative of the literature of the absurd: the make-believe theory, formulated by Kendall Walton, Thomas Pavel's theory of prominent structures and his theories of objects of Alexius Meinong and Terence Parsons. The corpus of this paper includes texts by Urmuz (Pâlnia și Stamate, Cotadi și Dragomir, Ismail și Turnavitu) and Eugène Ionesco (Scaunele). Absurd texts are anti-mimetic texts that, according to the make-believe theory, create through the game of what would be, contradictory possible worlds, which captivates the reader. With props in real world, they are configured as incoherent, inhomogeneous universes. Scaunele by Ionesco is a genuine simulated show, a game of imagination, with comic and tragic elements at the same time. The theory of prominent structures created by Thomas Paul highlights the presence in Urmuz's texts of possible worlds without a correspondent in reality, bearing the seal of the author's originality. The elements that compound the primary and secondary ontology of the urmuzian fictional universe are not isomorphic, creating for the reader the intuition of contact with the absurd. Meinong's and Parsons's theories of objects and non-existent objects applied to fragments of Urmuz's prose highlight their belonging to the category of the absurd by the presence of non-existent objects, in whose list of properties contradictions and impossibilities meet.

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HERETICAL LITERATURE

Author(s): Ionuța ILIEȘ / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2022

Between 1945 and 1989, Romania have entered the Soviet sphere of influence and it lies under the sign of a socialist dictatorship which is built according to the Stalinist model and imposed on all areas of social life. The state is controlled by the sole party and the power is concerned in the hands of a General security. The control belongs entirely to the Communist Party which has a great influence in people’s life. Also, in the context of the totalitarian regime the freedom of thinking and of creation is limited and the literature has to be subordinated to the party’s interest. So that literature must find its own attitudes and responses. In his book, ”Heretical literature. Censored political texts between 1949 and 1977”, published in Bucharest in 2016, Liviu Maliţa talks about the confrontations of the Rumanian writers with the power represented in this case by the Censure, about the subversive literature which comes to deny the official literature promoted by the Communist party and about the dangers that the writer is exposed if he does not respect the norms imposed by the censor. Another work we have mentioned on this ocasion is Adrian Marino’s, ”Censorship in Romania” which is concerned with the specific points of Romanian’s censorship. This paper attempts to be a short presentation of the Censorship in Rumania in the Communist period and also of the condition of the writer and his creation during this black page of history.

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SYMBOLIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL VALENCES IN FOLK TALES OF BUCOVINA, COLLECTED BY S. FL. MARIAN

Author(s): Sergiu Crăciun / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 29/2022

In this study we aim to analyze some of the popular fairy tales collected from Bucovina, by the famous folklorist S. FL. Marian. The interpretation of the texts has as orientation points: Mythology, magical thinking, illustrated by Lucian Blaga, but also symbolic valences of objects and beings represented in popular fantasy texts, as an integral part of the popular epic in Bucovina. The hermeneutic process is focused on highlighting mythic-symbolic elements such as fish, rose, deer, golden apple, rain or tree-legged horse from the stories selected for analysis. Both studies and dictionaries will outline the significance at least partially of the symbol elements identified in the fairy tales quoted in the Article.

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THE STYLE OF HAIKU POEMS PRACTICED BY EDUARD ŢARĂ

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2022

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the haiku poems by Eduard Ţară which have been published in the haiku book Luna în ţǎndǎri (2021), after years of intense activity and winning the highest number of prizes in haiku contests at international level. He is one of the main personalities of the Romanian haiku communities. The poem from which the title of the book is the third line (“After the frog’s leap -/ only a splash in the night/ and the moon to shards”) can be regarded as an example of optical illusion, according to the author of this paper, and as an example of mirror reflection, according to Atanasiu (2022). Other examples of techniques in his poems will be analysed as well.

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OPERA LUI V. NEMOIANU

Author(s): Iulian Băicuș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

In this critical essay I have been trying to describe and comprehend the work of a famous and praised Romanian-American scholar, the emerittus and appointed distinguished professor of Washington Catholic University, Virgil Nemoianu. I have divided on purpose the critical essay in two different parts, separating The Romanian and American contributions, and I have analysed his Romanian works and American works separately, trying to discover the core thesis of this texts. In the second part I have been focused on three different studies, The Taming of Romanticism, A Theory of the Secondary and Micro-Armonia, stressing on the idea that all of them had a considerably impact on his Romanian colleagues, for example taking into account the fact that his anthology The Hospitable Canon, he has introduced after 1990 in his Romanian language publishing the literary term “canon” in an imaginary Romanian critic terms dictionary. The term „canon” has been used for example by Professor N.Manolescu in his Critical History of Romanian Literature. Professor V.Nemoianu has started recently to publish his entire work in a huge critical edition, translating all his American studies into Romanian, at Spandugino Publishing House. He has published his works chronologically, starting with the studies he had published before leaving his country, and he continued with the new editions of his most praised works on Romanticism, Idilic literature, and the theory of the secondary at works of Michel Serres, Lucian Blaga and René Girard, postmodernism, different essays on religion and Romanian liberalism, a monograph on the poetry of reknown Romanian poet Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, his travel diaries and autobiographical memoirs, etc. If somebody will assume this huge task of analysis all these facettes of his work should take into account the interdisciplinarity of his approaches, Virgil Nemoianu’s work has been influenced by European Illuminism, but he must start with his formation of an English literature professor and who has later has become a World Literature and Compared Literature, and somebody must stress on the complexity of these texts.

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FLORIAN ANDREI VLAD, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS IN THE POST‐9/11 AGE: LITERATURE, TRAUMA, AND GEOPOLITICS. BUCHAREST: EDITURA UNIVERSITARA, 2021

Author(s): Andreea Cosma / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2022

This paper reviews Florian Andrei Vlad’ s Lights and Shadows in the Post‐9/11 Age: Literature, Trauma, and Geopolitics, a work that applies trauma theory on three contemporary prose writings that tackle 9/11: John Updike’s Terrorist, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man. The close reading chapters, together with the introduction to trauma theory and the overview of the geopolitical context of the event build up a complete picture that reveals the consequences produced by the attack at a psychological, social, and cultural level.

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LUCIAN BLAGA, VALERIU ANANIA, NICOLAE STEINHARDT - THE TRIAD OF FREE WRITERS, BEYOND CENSORSHIP

Author(s): Diana Porumb (Popa) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

The communion with God has always been a source of religious poetry, building the meditation area whose product was the refined, deified word, through the grace of poets. Philological research has discovered a true theology of logos, giving it special importance from the very first pages of the biblical text. Lucian Blaga, Nicolae Steinhardt, and Valeriu Anania converge on the duality of the human being, as well as their endeavor to penetrate the way human consciousness manifests itself, the need for light, knowledge, and truth. This justifies the presence of the metaphor of light in Blagian and Ananian poetry, as well as in the memoirs of the monk from Rohia. Light is closely related to the divine logos and the ritual of utterance. Light opposes darkness, so it expresses the principle of good. The texts of the presented writers reflect both the turmoil of a generation and the creative grace, the need to testify about faith, hesychia, knowledge, life and death. Twinned by shared biographical aspects, the writers develop the same thematic predilection and vision. They continue the great interwar tradition, being aware of their messianic role, of the importance of the literary testament.

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FEMALE IDENTITIES IN ROMANIAN LITERATURE LEADING TO 2000s FEMALE TYPOLOGIES

Author(s): Anamaria - Laura Ciocan (Bâzu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

The current paper aims to come across different feminine identities that belong to 2000s Romanian prose, having as starting point a meticulous research of the theoretical studies, drawing attention to different dimensions from writings belonging to authors from 1848 until 2000 in order to observe the evolution of the female character and to conclude with a delimitation regarding the 2000s female typologies.

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